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It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men. To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of […]

Deep, deeper than we believe

One might think that the phrase of Lord Acton (that ‘it cannot really be held that in Rome sixteen centuries after Christ men did not know that murder was wrong’) might be held to apply [to the Inquisition]; it cannot be that men did not think such methods doubtfully holy. It was not so. Deep, […]

The devil, even if he is a fact, has been an indulgence;… while he exists, there is always something to which we can be superior.

The first meeting of 2010 – April 17th

The first meeting of 2010 will be at the: Centre for Mediaeval Studies, Shoe Lane, Oxford, on April 17th, with Dr Richard Sturch denouncing (?) ‘Charles Williams as Heretic’ Further information may be obtained from the Secretary: Dr Richard Sturch, 35 Broomfield, Stacy Bushes, Milton Keynes. MK12 6HA or at the e-mail address:  charles_wms_soc@yahoo.co.uk

Blessed Lord thou hast given me horses, books, Cambridge, and peace: foolish the man, having these, who seeks increase. – Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury

Some brief notes on CW books

War in Heaven, Many Dimensions, and Descent into Hell are now available in one volume, A Charles Williams Reader, published in the United States by Eerdmans. The other four novels have recently been republished by Regent Publishing of Vancouver, Canada, who have already reissued his unconventional “history of the Holy Spirit in the Church”, The […]

Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge, October 17th

This was a joint one with the Dorothy Sayers Society. The speakers will be Brian Horne on Williams’s Dante; Suzanne Bray on the Canterbury Festival plays of Williams and Sayers; Kenneth Pickering on “The Found Space”, including accounts of the opportunities and constraints afforded by the location of the Festival PLays; and Glen Cavaliero on […]

Williams’s mature poetry, apart from his plays, is set against the background of the Arthurian legends, adapted for his own purposes. (For example, Arthur’s kingdom of Logres, and indeed most of Europe, are seen as part of the Byzantine Empire.) The main figure in most of the poems is Taliessin, a semi-legendary Welsh bard, here […]

The Charles Williams Society Summer Conference 2008

The papers from our brilliantly successful Conference at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, from July 4th-6th 2008. have now been published in book form by Cambridge Scholars Publishing under the title “Charles Williams and his Contemporaries”, edited by Suzanne Bray and Richard Sturch. Further details from the publishers’ website, www.c-s-p.org

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